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widget

1. A meta-thing. Used to stand for a real object in didactic
examples (especially database tutorials). Legend has it that the original
widgets were holders for buggy whips. “But suppose the parts list
for a widget has 52 entries....” 2. [poss.: evoking ‘window gadget’] A user interface
object in X graphical user interfaces.